Andrei Karlov

Associated Press photographer Burhan Özbilici has won the 2017 World Press Photo competition for his image of a gun-wielding off-duty Turkish police officer standing over the body of Russia's ambassador Andrei Karlov, whom he had just fatally shot.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to pay a visit to Moscow next month to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Turkish Ambassador to Russia Hüseyin Diriöz said Feb. 3.

Very important evidence has been accessed during the interrogation of Reina nightclub murderer Abdulkadir Masharipov, who was caught by Istanbul police on Jan. 16. His capture alive helped give information about several of his connections.

Turkey will prepare a new list about the users of the Bylock mobile messaging application whose users are suspected of being linked to the Gülen network, after Ankara secured cooperation with Lithuania, where the server of the app is based, upon Russian initiatives. 

One police officer was arrested late on Jan. 19 over the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was killed on Dec. 19, 2016 in the capital Ankara. 

Two suspects, including one police officer, were arrested on Jan. 19 in connection to the assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The organizer of the photography exhibition where Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was assassinated has been detained along with an Ankara police officer, almost a month after the killing. 

The assassin of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, was buried in the cemetery of the nameless in Ankara on Jan. 13, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

I was talking to a ranking official about the escape of Abdulgadir Masharipov, the Tajik-origin Uzbek citizen who is wanted for killing 39 people on Jan. 1 in Istanbul's Reina nightclub on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), or DEASH in Arabic.

The investigations into the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, are producing "interesting developments," according to Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.